Our spreadsheet for Sprint 2 had some flaws. We weren't reporting our time remaining each day consistently and the calculations in my spreadsheet were slightly off.
We're going to try a new spreadsheet for this next sprint (starting Tuesday) until we make the move to Greenhopper in a few weeks. - Esbee On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Philippe (Merov) Bossut < me...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Moriz Gupte <moriz.gu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> May I venture to share these questions: >> Regarding the snowstorm sprint2 backlog: I have always tried to observe >> other teams using scrum and I have a question regarding negative daily >> velocity values. I am not familiar with this and am thinking if this is the >> case, then it could mean that burndown graph Y axis would need negative >> values as well?? What does negative daily velocity actually mean? just a >> reflection of a task having been underestimated? >> > > I'm not the Scrum Master (it's Esbee :) ) but I think the issue with the > scrum spreadsheet is 2 folds: > 1. contingent reason - I (and may be others) was confused as to what to > report in the daily hours for each task. I was putting the time spent > instead of the time remaining on a task so it never got to zero. I see > "Done" tasks still mentioning time which seems strange. Today, I fixed my > tasks looking at how Esbee have done with hers, i.e. chipping down time from > the total. > 2. scrum reason - As we go through a task, we may (and often do) discover > new problems that need fixing and that we end up adding to the tally. That > actually creates a "negative velocity" if all you look at is the burndown > chart, i.e. the total remaining. > > Cheers, > - Merov > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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